Arts BOOK REVIEW: No Fear No Shame by Alice Denny This new collection of poems from Alice Denny, like herself, is slim but packs a punch. There is an essential contradiction in all Denny’s poems; like all poets she’s both startlingly intimate and ruthlessness private, exposing and hiding, showing and telling, letting us feel the throb of blood in h By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Black Wave: Michelle Tea Teas’ prose is wonderful, Queer, lusciously Lesbo, darkly Dykey and frothy, filthy and fun. It’s a seriously gripping and evocative tale of Queer women love in all the messy hyper clarity colourful mixed up ways that Tea can tweak and twist her lady loving ideas into. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Bitch Doctrine – Essays for Dissenting Adults: Laurie Penny Noted British feminist writer tackles gender, sexism, identity, and power issues in a world being laid waste by “kamikaze capitalism.” From her opening premise that ‘toxic masculinity is killing the world’ you’ve got a really clear idea of where this elegant, refined and ruthlessly researched, argue By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Polari tenth birthday tour comes to the Marlborough Theatre London’s multi award-winning LGBT literary salon returns to the Marlborough Theatre on Friday, October 20, as part of its tenth birthday tour, funded by Arts Council England. By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts Research urges discussion about the term LGBT+ community! The phrase ‘LGBT community’ can be problematic and must be used with caution, according to research from Sheffield Hallam University. The UK-wide study, which included responses from more than 600 participants, explored the use of the phrase commonly used to describe and group people who identify as By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Polari First Book Prize shortlist announced f championing LGBT+ voices with UK-wide tour. The shortlist for the Polari First Book Prize 2017 was announced last night at the Polari Literary Salon in London’s Southbank Centre. The prize, now in its seventh year, is awarded annually to a writer whose first book explores the LGBT+ experience, wh By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer City: Peter Ackroyd Ackroyd connects us modern day queers up with our Celtic and Roman forbearers and all the benders, faggots, dykes, trannies, queers, inverts, perverts, queens, Ganymede’s, sappho’s, cross dressers, gender twisters, fops, dandies, genderqueers and utterly baroque non binary beauties (and run of the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Vuong: Night sky with exit wounds This book is a magical journey into the imagination and talents of Vuong’s mind and worth pursing for anybody interesting in poems which can change, more spells than sentences, they alter reality as we read them and leave us impressed and impressed upon by this astonishing young man’s collection of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Bahamian LGBT+ activist Helen Klonaris at Charleston by Maria Jastrzębska This autumn Small Wonder, the festival dedicated to short stories, is hosting Bahamian writer and LGBT+ activist Helen Klonaris as its British Council International Writer in Residence. The festival takes place in Charleston, once home to the Bloomsbury group. By Besi • 5 min read
Arts Mancunian Gay gets Manchester Pride revival Manchester Pride to publish anniversary edition of local magazine ‘The Mancunian Gay’ which was first designed 40 years ago in a Greater Manchester kitchen. Manchester Pride is working in association with Archives+ at Manchester Central Library and the original publisher and founding member, Paul Fa By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge New gay author Simon Edge bring us this lovely story of poems, nuns, persecution, the welsh countryside and some romantic intrigue and it’s a delicious read with some hints into Hopkins homoerotic experiences and the poetry itself washing though the book entwined in the whirls and eddies of Edges gr By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Musician and activist undertakes PhD at the University of Huddersfield CN Lester is researching the life and works of Barbara Strozzi supervised by Dr Lisa Colton in the Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity. Musician and activist CN Lester is completing a PhD project at the University of Huddersfield, investigating and appraising an important but neglecte By Besi • 2 min read
